Prof. Arjan Verschoor is a behavioral development economist. He received an MSc (1991) in Economics, an MSc in Development Economics (1993), and a PhD (2000) in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is now a Professor at the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia. Before joining the School of International Development in 2004, he worked as a Research Officer for the University of Sheffield on a DFID-funded project on pro-poor growth. His current research is on smallholder farmers’ livelihoods in the Global South, particularly investment, insurance, risk-taking, risk-sharing, and intrahousehold resource allocation decisions.